Wiesław Myśliwski


Wiesław Myśliwski is a Polish novelist.

Biography

He was born to a middle class family and raised in Ćmielów, where his father had participated in the Polish-Soviet War and became a local official after being demobilized. In her youth, his mother was an active member of, a rural young person's organization founded by.
After the war, he attended secondary schools in Sandomierz; graduating in 1951. He then studied philology at the Catholic University of Lublin, taking his degree in 1956. From then until 1976, he worked on the editorial staff at the .
From 1976 to 1999, he was Editor-in-chief of the cultural quarterly Regiony, and later contributed to the literary bi-weekly . Since 1997, he has chaired the jury for the prize. He was a member of the Polish Writers' Union from 1971 to 1983.

Works

In his novels and plays Myśliwski concentrates on life in the Polish countryside. He is a two-time winner of the Nike Award for Horizon and A Treatise on Shelling Beans.
His first novel translated into English was The Palace, rendered by Ursula Phillips. Bill Johnston's English translation of Kamień na kamieniu, published by Archipelago Books as Stone Upon Stone, won the 2012 Best Translated Book Award.

Awards and honors